By Tassie Rambler on Sunday, 06 August 2017
Category: News

Tasmania's Bike Friendly Business Accreditation Program

The TICT have launched Australia's first Bike Friendly Business community in partnership with the Tasmanian Government, the Tasmanian cycling community, and Tourism Northern Tasmania.

The aim of 'Bike Friendly Business Accreditation' is

On the upside, the scheme is free of charge for Tourism Accredited Businesses, but on the downside it is only open to Tourism Accredited Businesses.

The scheme itself has seemed to abandoned the well accepted approaches in Europe and elsewhere having different bandings or minimum standards for accreditiation and has instead gone for a simple "tick five boxes and you're in".  This approach is not in itself flawed, but given the checklinst (below) it does seem that a business could tick five boxes in just one or two categories and be accredited as "Bike Friendly" without necessarily meeting a minimum standard required by cyclists.

Knowledge and welcome – demonstrate your understanding of the needs of cyclists

 


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